Carstarphen v. Central of Georgia Ry. Co.

The plaintiff brought suit in the city court of Macon against the Central of Georgia Railway Company for $25,-000 damages. He alleged that in consequence of steam and water discharged under his building by the defendant through a drainpipe *163from the defendant’s premises, the building itself had been damaged $3,000, and in addition thereto he had sustained a monthly loss of $135 in the way of rent; that the presence of the pipe or. sewer was unknown to him at the time he erected his warehouse, and that the steam and water were surreptitiously discharged. The proof in behalf of the plaintiff…